Language Arts 2016-17 Vocabulary Flashcards

What means clear, easy to understand or able to think clearly?

Lucid

What means not known by most people or difficult to understand?

Obscure

What means very bad, poor, weak?

Pathetic

What means done with great energy, excitement of effort?

Intense

What means an act or appearance that looks real but is false?

Pretense

Very sad or lonely. Usually because someone left you or died.

Desolate

Done on purpose. Done slowly and carefully.

Deliberate

Very important. Very successful.

Prestigious

Very cruel or violent. Like an animal.

Savage

To confuse very much.

Bewildered

General, not specific.

Abstract

adhere to", follows.

Adhere

A decision where you have to make a hard decision.

Dilemma

Relating to ethics, involves questions about right and wrong,
"Ethical dilemma".

Ethical

To strengthen, to support, you use new supplies, people or action to reinforce.

Reinforce

Loyalty to a person, country or group.

Fealty

To speak in support for.

Advocate

A belief in what is right.

Principle

To allow something unpleasant to happen.

Tolerate

Said or done casually, insincere. Done with little thought, shows
little preparation.

Glib

Ashamed and extremely embarrassed.

Mortified


Feeling foolish
and embarrassed.

Humiliated


Feeling shame
and disgrace.

Ashamed

Being neither proud nor arrogant; respectful and modes.

Humbled


Feeling that something
is right and reasonable.

Justified


Thinking highly
of something you have or have done.

Proud

To be treated with
great respect.

Honored

To defend or
support a cause or a person.

Champion


To agree to something.

Consent

To allow or give permission.

Permit

To admit or accept something.

Acknowledge

To disagree
about something.

Dispute

To take an opposite
side, or take a stance against something.

Oppose

To argue
against, or claim an idea is wrong.

Contradict

The effort used to stop something.

Resistance

To make something greater or bigger.

Magnify

A part, on of the parts of something.

Component

To turn, the point which something turn around.

Pivot

To change the order, position, or time of something.

Rearrange

Closely connected or have a relationship.

Interrelated